Category Archives: Asides

The Twitter 500

As many Internal Server Errors as I’ve seen from the Twitter in the last few days, they should sponsor a NASCAR race.
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Beak ‘em

Kansas vs North Carolina. A college basketball match for the ages.
Rock Chalk!
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Found via the Twitter

I just noticed somebody found this old blog via the Twitter. My readership could be crossing into double digits any day now.
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Twitter in Tank

My natural sensitivity renders it unthinkable that I use the acronym form of this post’s title. I check the Twitter a few times a day, much like e-mail. Just now, I got the overly cute “Something is Technically Wrong” twitter advisory.
WP asides rule!
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Well worth the Struggle

Imagine, in the WP admin panel, clicking upgrade plugin automatically, and it, well, upgrades the plugin automatically. WP 2.5 does that very thing.
I love this stuff!
-k-tbbs tags: tbbs, blog, wordpress

The no-change change

Well, Hosting Guy set my memory_limit while I was out; problem is, he set it to the same value it was before the change. He also increased the upload_limit, but that, I think, is not my problem.
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They’re doing something

Hosting Guy has at least checked out phpinfo. Now, bump the limit already.
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Passing time

I’ve found it helpful after opening a support ticket, to follow up with a few e-mail notes to be added to the ticket. This causes activity in the ticket queue, and hopefully lets the support guys know they’re not dealing with someone who just fell off the yam wagon.
Sounds good, anyway. Or [...]

Support Fora

For heaven’s sake, please title your support plea in a manner that suggests the nature of your problem. Hint : titles such as “URGENT upgrade issue”, “____ is broken”, “HELP”, don’t cut it.
While I’m at it, replies to fora posts that are something like “same thing happened to me” aren’t helpful either. I [...]

Cinderella Still Dances

As Davidson wins over Wisconsin, 73-56, and I prepare to watch the KU Jayhawks 40 minutes hence, a note to KU: don’t look past Villanova tonight. Do what got you to the dance, then immediately start looking at the Wildcats from Davidson. They are good.1
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1 Lots of teams named Wildcats